disaffected grunts of a disillusioned expatriate

mazeballet:

and palestinian kids don’t fear the same thing when they’re woken up from their sleep? right.

I think that little Palestinian kids, like every kid living in such a situation, feel genuine fear, anguish and helplessness.  And I have no doubt that the roaring of the Israeli Air Force planes above their heads shaking their houses shocks them and terrifies them. 

The only difference between Israeli kids and Palestinian kids is that while Israeli kids are fearful, they are not taught to hate. They do not celebrate each time an innocent Palestinian is dead, and they are not educated the killing ones self is honorable and righteous if you kill Jews on the way.

Our religion, our doctrine, and our government does not condone launching RPG’s at private vehicles or spraying civilian buses with bullets, and does not target civilians. Our leaders do not tell us to blow ourselves up for the greater good. Our rabbi’s do not tell us to hate our neighbors and drown them in the sea.  Our military does not ambush innocents and enact terrorist attacks on them.  And his is what separaes us from them.

You see, if the little palestinian kids woken up in the middle of the night were taught the next day that peace could be possible, that they must forgive, and that they must not hate, then perhaps their kids would not be woken up in the middle of the night. But instead they are taught to hate, to build rockets in their backyards and to launch them to Israeli territory in the middle of the night, hoping to kill helpless civiliians.